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This is another sponsored GreyBeards on Storage podcast and it was recorded at Vmworld 2019. I talked with Jon Hildebrand (@snoopJ123), Principal Technologist at Cohesity. Jon’s been a long time friend from TechFieldDay days and has been working with Cohesity for ~14 months now. For such a short time, Jon’s seen a lot of changes in Cohesity functionality
Indeed, they just announced general availability of Cohesity 6.4 which he called a “major release”. One of the first things we talked about in the 6.4 release, was CyberScan, Powered by Tenable, which is a new capability that uses backup data and scans it for vulnerabilities and risk postures. This way customers can assess their data to see if it’s been infected, potentially long before ransomware or other cyber threats can cripple your systems.
One of the other features in 6.4 was a new run book automation, called the Cohesity Runbook application, that can be used for instance to standup a physical clone of customer data and applications in the cloud or elsewhere. This way customers can have a fully operational copy of their applications running in the cloud, automatically supplied by Cohesity Runbook. Besides the great use of this facility for DR, and DR testing, such capabilities could be used to fire up a Test/Dev environment of your production applications on public cloud infrastructure.
The last feature of 6.4 that Jon and I discussed, supports archiving data from a primary NAS/filer storage systems and move that data out to Cohesity NAS. A stub or SymLink to the data is retained on the primary NAS system. By doing that, customers still have access to all the metadata and can access the data anytime they want, but frees up primary storage capacity and most of the IO processing to access the data.
Cohesity NAS provides the capacity and the processing power to support the IO and data that has been archived. With the new feature, Cohesity DataPlatform acts as an archive or tier of storage behind the primary NAS server. By doing so, customers should be able to delay tech refresh cycles, which should save them time and money.
When I asked Jon if there were any last items he wanted to discuss he mentioned the Cohesity Truck. Apparently John, Chris and others at Cohesity have stood up a complete data center inside a semi-trailer. Jon said if we can’t bring customers to the Executive Briefing Center (EBC), then we can bring the EBC to the customers. Jon said the truck is touring the USA and you can arrange a visit by going to Cohesity.com/tour.
The podcast is a little under ~20 minutes. Jon is an old friend from TechFieldDays and seems to be taking to Cohesity very well. I’ve always respected Jon’s knowledge of the customer environment and his technical acumen. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
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Jon Hildebrand, Principal Technologist, Cohesity.
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